《國際材料成形雜志》是歐洲材料成形科學協會(ESAFORM)的官方期刊(www.esaform.org)。該雜志出版和傳播材料成型領域的原始研究。該研究應在材料成形過程的理解、建模或仿真方面取得重大成果。在這方面，“成形”意味著材料的故意變形。該雜志建立了一個工程師與科學家溝通的平臺，涵蓋了所有的成型工藝，包括板材成型、體塊成型、粉末成型、近熔體成型(注塑、觸控成型、吹膜等)、微成型、液壓成型、熱成型、增量成型等。如果工作的重點是塑性變形，其他制造技術，如機械加工和切削也可以包括在內。所有材料(金屬、陶瓷、聚合物、復合材料、玻璃、木材、纖維增強材料、食品加工材料、生物材料、納米材料、形狀記憶合金等)和方法(微宏建模、熱機建模)；數值模擬包括新的和先進的數值策略、實驗分析、反分析、模型識別、優化、成形工具和機械的設計和控制、磨損和摩擦、材料的力學性能和成形性等。論文應描述與成形有關的新成形工藝、實驗、模型或建模技術，或工藝條件與產品性能之間的關系。一般來說，仿真結果應該通過實驗來驗證，除非只關注新的建模技術。新的模型或建模技術應該在成形模擬中具有廣泛的適用性，不應該局限于一個特定的形狀。分析或數值模型的結果，如果沒有轉換成新的知識或沒有得到實驗驗證的支持，將不被接受。同樣，如果提交的論文沒有經過徹底的評估和結論就描述了實驗結果，因此沒有帶來新的知識，那么這些論文將被拒絕。對成形技術的相關性和工作的新穎性應在摘要中明確描述。

The International Journal of Material Forming is the official Journal of the European Scientific Association for material FORMing (ESAFORM) (www.esaform.org).The Journal publishes and disseminates original research in the field of material forming. The research should constitute major achievements in the understanding, modeling or simulation of material forming processes. In this respect ‘forming’ implies a deliberate deformation of material.The journal establishes a platform of communication between engineers and scientists, covering all forming processes, including sheet forming, bulk forming, powder forming, forming in near-melt conditions (injection moulding, thixoforming, film blowing etc.), micro-forming, hydro-forming, thermo-forming, incremental forming etc. Other manufacturing technologies like machining and cutting can be included if the focus of the work is on plastic deformations.All materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, glass, wood, fibre reinforced materials, materials in food processing, biomaterials, nano-materials, shape memory alloys etc.) and approaches (micro-macro modelling, thermo-mechanical modelling, numerical simulation including new and advanced numerical strategies, experimental analysis, inverse analysis, model identification, optimization, design and control of forming tools and machines, wear and friction, mechanical behavior and formability of materials etc.) are concerned.Papers should describe new forming processes, experiments, models or modelling techniques, related to forming or the relation between process conditions and product properties. In general, simulation results should be validated by experiments unless the focus is purely on novel modelling techniques. New models or modelling techniques should have a broad applicability in forming simulations and should not be restricted to one particular shape.Results of analytical or numerical models that are not translated into new knowledge or are not supported by experimental validation will not be accepted. Similarly, submissions that describe experimental results without thorough evaluation and conclusion and thus not leading to new knowledge, will be rejected. The relevance for forming technologies and the novelty of the work should be clearly described in the abstract.